South African energy crisis
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title:
South African energy crisis
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South Africa's energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki's second term as president, and continues to the present. The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator, Eskom, and various parliamentarians attributed these rolling blackouts to insufficient generation capacity. According to Eskom and government officials, the soluti
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Widespread national level rolling blackouts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis
date created:
2019-02-12T11:39:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T10:53:23Z
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